The richest person in every state

Most of us know the richest person in America (Bill Gates at $70 billion).

But what about the richest person in your state?

Wealth-X has put together a list of all 50 states with their top wealth holders. Surprisingly nine states don't have billionaires (and yet somehow they manage to function). It only took $300 million to be the richest Wyoming resident, and $400 million to be the wealth king of Alaska.

Granted, many of the super rich don't really "live" anywhere, since they flit from home to home and state to state. Wealth-X used the business address for each wealth holder to determine residence.

Here's the list.

The richest person in every state

State

Person

Net Worth Value after Valuation (US$ Billion)

Alabama

Marguerite Harbert

1.5

Alaska

Robert Gillam

0.4

Arizona

Bruce Halle Sr.

4.4

Arkansas

James Walton

37.1

California

Lawrence Ellison

46.4

Colorado

Charles Ergen

13.7

Connecticut

Raymond Dalio

13.4

Delaware

Robert Gore

0.8

Florida

Micky Arison

5.9

Georgia

Anne Cox Chambers

11.4

Hawaii

Jay Shidler

0.7

Idaho

Frank Vandersloot

1.2

Illinois

Samuel Zell

3.8

Indiana

Gayle Cook

4.8

Iowa

Dennis Albaugh

1.6

Kansas

David Koch

41.5

Kentucky

Brad M. Kelley

1.9

Louisiana

Thomas Benson

1.3

Maine

Leon Gorman

0.8

Maryland

Theodore Lerner

4.1

Massachusetts

Abigail Johnson

16.9

Michigan

Kenneth Dart

6.6

Minnesota

Whitney MacMillan

3.8

Mississippi

Jim Barksdale

0.6

Missouri

John L. Morris

3.8

Montana

Dennis Washington

5.6

Nebraska

Warren Buffett

59.8

Nevada

Sheldon Adelson

32.3

New Hampshire

Richard Cohen

10.0

New Jersey

David Tepper

7.9

New Mexico

John A Yates

0.8

New York

Michael Bloomberg

21.4

North Carolina

James Goodnight

7.4

North Dakota

Gary Tharaldson

0.9

Ohio

Leslie Wexner

5.2

Oklahoma

George Kaiser

9.8

Oregon

Phillip Knight

14.7

Pennsylvania

Hansjorg Wyss

9.2

Rhode Island

Jonathan Nelson

1.5

South Carolina

Anita Zucker

2.6

South Dakota

T. Denny Sanford

1.3

Tennessee

Thomas Frist Jr.

3.2

Texas

Michael Dell

16.0

Utah

Blake Roney

0.6

Vermont

Robert Stiller

1.1

Virginia

Forrest Mars Jr.

20.1

Washington

Bill Gates

70.8

West Virginia

James Justice II

1.6

Wisconsin

John Menard Jr

7.3

Wyoming

John Martin

0.3

Source: Wealth-X

(CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story inadvertently omitted Missouri. The richest person in Missouri is John Morris. He has a net worth value after valuation of $3.8 billion, according to Wealth-X.)